Information Security Senior Architect

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior IT and business leaders (VP/C-level) to align security architecture with long-term strategic goals.
• Define and evolve enterprise security architecture across networks, cloud platforms, endpoints, identity systems, and data centers.
• Lead adoption of Zero Trust architecture across infrastructure, identity, and network layers.
• Drive secure infrastructure design patterns for compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling to identify and re-mediate design-level vulnerabilities.
• Drive maturity in security domains, including DLP, intrusion prevention, endpoint protection, network security, application security, vulnerability management, and IAM.
• Lead implementation and configuration of enterprise security tooling, ensuring alignment with architectural standards.
• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and methodologies to support consistent architecture practices.
• Monitor emerging threats and technologies, providing proactive recommendations to strengthen security posture.
• Evaluate and onboard third-party solutions, ensuring secure integration and compliance.
• Provide strategic guidance on encryption, secure protocols, and infrastructure hardening.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 12+ years in cybersecurity, with strong emphasis on enterprise infrastructure and platform security architecture.
• Proven experience designing and securing large-scale enterprise environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).
• Deep expertise in network, system, and identity security architecture.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to varying audiences (development, engineers, leadership).
• Strong knowledge of network architecture and security, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and hybrid infrastructure, identity systems (Active Directory, IAM, PAM), and encryption, PKI, and key management.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, and configuration management.
• Excellent analytical, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.